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i also think the president is evading answering questions about benghazi. it's a tragedy that we may go into this election and we don't know the answer, did president obama know about the prior attacks on that consulate. did he know about the attack in june, when there was a hole drilled through the wall that was 12 feet wide. if that didn't wake him up to the fact that we needed more security in benghazi, then there's something seriously wrong. but this man has now evaded for six weeks answering that simple question. i don't know how you people in the press let him get away with it. >> final question for you, rudy. you're in ohio. many people think it's the absolutely crucial state that both sides have to win. can mitt romney become president realistically if he doesn't win ohio? >> either one can win without ohio. simple fact is probably the man who wins is going to win ohio. is it theoretically possible for either one of them to win without ohio, yeah. we can go through scenarios with wisconsin and colorado, pennsylvania slipping the other way. but belie
i also think the president is evading answering questions about benghazi. it's a tragedy that we may go into this election and we don't know the answer, did president obama know about the prior attacks on that consulate. did he know about the attack in june, when there was a hole drilled through the wall that was 12 feet wide. if that didn't wake him up to the fact that we needed more security in benghazi, then there's something seriously wrong. but this man has now evaded for six weeks...
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the latest on the benghazi hearings. joining me is pentagon correspondent barbara starr and intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly. welcome to you both. barbara, this is really fascinating me. so general petraeus who has been at the center of this huge scandal tomorrow morning will testify at a congressional hearing about benghazi, and your information from a very good source, i think is really, really significant. it's basically, i have been listening to you for the last couple of hours, petraeus basically says he knew the moment this happened that it was a group called answar al sharia and that after that there was a stream of other intelligence saying it may be linked to the video we all knew about but his belief was always that it was this group and they had to rule out the other intelligence before they could officially confirm it. is that right? >> that's pretty close to it, piers. very good source of mine who is directly familiar with what general petraeus plans to try and say on capitol hill tomorrow behind clo
the latest on the benghazi hearings. joining me is pentagon correspondent barbara starr and intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly. welcome to you both. barbara, this is really fascinating me. so general petraeus who has been at the center of this huge scandal tomorrow morning will testify at a congressional hearing about benghazi, and your information from a very good source, i think is really, really significant. it's basically, i have been listening to you for the last couple of hours,...
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>> given the circumstances in benghazi, wolf, probably not. probably because there had been similar attacks on the british ambassador's convoy, there had been an infiltration of islamic extremists from the southern part of libya, there had been a series of attacks near the airport. so there's no doubt that chris was well aware at the time that benghazi was less than a secure city. >> what do you think caused this attack? was it simply that anti-islamic film or is there something much bigger here that explains this hatred of the united states? >> well, with respect to libya, i don't think it has to do with hatred of the united states. the islam terrorist groups, could have been gadhafi dead enders who have been plotting to destabilize the government. across the rest of the region, there's clearly a permeation of anti-and the struggle between the muslim brotherhood. >> egypt is much more important. i assume you like a lot of others are deeply disappointed that the newly elected president was so shy at least at the beginning in condemning the att
>> given the circumstances in benghazi, wolf, probably not. probably because there had been similar attacks on the british ambassador's convoy, there had been an infiltration of islamic extremists from the southern part of libya, there had been a series of attacks near the airport. so there's no doubt that chris was well aware at the time that benghazi was less than a secure city. >> what do you think caused this attack? was it simply that anti-islamic film or is there something...
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consulate in benghazi, libya. can you update us? >> it's my understanding there were nearly two dozen armed individuals that coordinated explosions and other things. this is the same site that was attacked with an ied about a month or so ago. very, very concerning, and it's concerning that this is a repeat target for them and that this may have been more successful because of the large scale of it. so it's, again, very, very concerning. we have seen al qaeda elements in libya spring up, as we have seen in tunisia, as well. all of that is concerning. we still don't know for certain yet, as i speak to you today or tonight, who is responsible and who's claimed responsibility. so those details are still unfolding. >> it is a coincidence or not that this is the anniversary of 9/11? and we see not only what's going on in libya, but they were attacking the u.s. embassy in cairo, as well on this day. is there a connection here? >> well, from what i have been led to believe as i stand here, there's no connection yet identified after the coor
consulate in benghazi, libya. can you update us? >> it's my understanding there were nearly two dozen armed individuals that coordinated explosions and other things. this is the same site that was attacked with an ied about a month or so ago. very, very concerning, and it's concerning that this is a repeat target for them and that this may have been more successful because of the large scale of it. so it's, again, very, very concerning. we have seen al qaeda elements in libya spring up,...
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clinton says she is waiting for answers while the fbi investigating the killing of four americans in benghazi, libya, our sources reveal that not one fbi investigator has st stepped foot in the crime scene. the same sources say the crime scene has not been secured. and those are two deadlines, just two new pieces of information tonight. that is not all we are learning. cnn national security contributor fran townsend is joining us now. she has the scoop on all of it. as we often mention there is a
clinton says she is waiting for answers while the fbi investigating the killing of four americans in benghazi, libya, our sources reveal that not one fbi investigator has st stepped foot in the crime scene. the same sources say the crime scene has not been secured. and those are two deadlines, just two new pieces of information tonight. that is not all we are learning. cnn national security contributor fran townsend is joining us now. she has the scoop on all of it. as we often mention there is...
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clinton says she is still waiting for answers while the fbi investigates four americans killing in benghazi, libya. our sources reveal that not single fbi investigators has set foot at the crime scene 15 days after the terrorist attack. and that the crime scene has still not been secured. those are just two headlines, two new pieces of information
clinton says she is still waiting for answers while the fbi investigates four americans killing in benghazi, libya. our sources reveal that not single fbi investigators has set foot at the crime scene 15 days after the terrorist attack. and that the crime scene has still not been secured. those are just two headlines, two new pieces of information
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egg governor romney, staring down reporters white house fielding questions on the petraeus scandal, benghazi, the fiscal cliff and a long couple weeks with many waiting for answers. jay tapper is an abc correspondent. jay, welcome. >> thank you, great to be here. >> almost perfect timing, this book. discussing before we went on the air that it's -- it concern he is two great generals. mcchrystal and petraeus and they are both gone before the book has hit the streets come you have ever imagined when you were thought embedded with these troops that would happen? >> no the book mainly about the grunts on the ground but does look a lot at how people like president bush, president obama, secretaries of defense and how these celebrity jones, how their decisions end up affecting these guys at this very vulnerable outpost at the bottom of three steep mountains just 14 miles from the pakistan border. one of the things that emerges in the book that mcchrystal and his aides are obsessed with the idea of the celebrity general, as petraeus has become. petraeus, if you read his press clips, believe he was
egg governor romney, staring down reporters white house fielding questions on the petraeus scandal, benghazi, the fiscal cliff and a long couple weeks with many waiting for answers. jay tapper is an abc correspondent. jay, welcome. >> thank you, great to be here. >> almost perfect timing, this book. discussing before we went on the air that it's -- it concern he is two great generals. mcchrystal and petraeus and they are both gone before the book has hit the streets come you have...
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the benghazi thing has been a debacle, has been a wild card in this race. i have been traveling around the country and our veterans are angry. i have never seen our veterans so angry because they think that we didn't do enough to protect those brave americans that were there and were murdered. they think we should have done a lot more. then of course we have this cover-up and conflicting stories. it's really, there's either a massive cover-up going on or a kind of gross incompetence that this administration is not fit to lead. >> your comments about the veterans not trusting the president have hit a bit of a raw nerve with the democrats. robert gibbs, a former white house press secretary, just said this on erin burnett's show. let me play this to you. >> obviously people have a lot of respect for somebody like john mccain but for somebody to go out there and say people in the military don't trust the commander in chief, that's one of the more shameful comments i've heard in more than 20 years of being in politics. >> one of the most shameful comments he's h
the benghazi thing has been a debacle, has been a wild card in this race. i have been traveling around the country and our veterans are angry. i have never seen our veterans so angry because they think that we didn't do enough to protect those brave americans that were there and were murdered. they think we should have done a lot more. then of course we have this cover-up and conflicting stories. it's really, there's either a massive cover-up going on or a kind of gross incompetence that this...
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as a result, there was an attack as you know on the american embassy in benghazi in libya. the ambassador christopher stevens was murdered. do you condemn the attack which caused his murder? >> translator: fundamentally, first of all, any action that is provocative offends the religious thoughts and feelings of any people, we condemn. likewise, we condemn any type of extremism. of course, what took place was ugly, offending the holy prophet is quite ugly. this has very little or nothing to do with freedom and freedom of speech. this is the weakness of -- and the abuse of freedom and in many places, it is a crime. it shouldn't take place and i do hope the day will come in which politicians will not seek to offend those whom others hold holy, but we also believe that this must also be resolved in a humane atmosphere, in a participatory environment, and we do not like anyone losing their lives or being killed for any reason anywhere in the world. >> there were protesters all over the middle east now threatening the staff of american embassies, threatening to kill them, to behe
as a result, there was an attack as you know on the american embassy in benghazi in libya. the ambassador christopher stevens was murdered. do you condemn the attack which caused his murder? >> translator: fundamentally, first of all, any action that is provocative offends the religious thoughts and feelings of any people, we condemn. likewise, we condemn any type of extremism. of course, what took place was ugly, offending the holy prophet is quite ugly. this has very little or nothing...
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there were five words that were going to break barack obama in the election -- unemployment, gasoline, benghazi, and big bird. >> well, leave it to newt gingrich to be so pithy. but also to be so wrong. this is a president who sees everybody, who sees both the folks who have emerged into success because the recession has touched them, but also those who are struggling and understands that we all of us have work to do to finish the job. and that's why i think this president deserves a second term. he actually cares about and sees everyone and has a strategy to reach them. and a very -- >> say, let's go through the list. let's remove big bird because it's a bit facetious. but 23 million americans unemployed. nearly 8%. gasoline prices have doubled in obama's four-year term. and benghazi today we see that there are e-mails that have appeared which basically prove that the administration did know this was some kind of planned terrorist attack. and wasn't related to any protests over the video. none of this is very good for the president, is it? >> well, look, first of all, you cannot deny that ther
there were five words that were going to break barack obama in the election -- unemployment, gasoline, benghazi, and big bird. >> well, leave it to newt gingrich to be so pithy. but also to be so wrong. this is a president who sees everybody, who sees both the folks who have emerged into success because the recession has touched them, but also those who are struggling and understands that we all of us have work to do to finish the job. and that's why i think this president deserves a...
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. >> john mccain talks mitt romney momentum and blasts the white house on the benghazi attack. >> you can't assume anything about either a cover-up or colossal incompetence. >> also, obama's favorite debate sparring partner and the man who whipped obama into shape after the disastrous first debate. and battleground america. why women hold the key to this election. plus, when politics becomes personal. the always controversial gloria allred. >> even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god intended to happen. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. our big story tonight, big changes. that's what mitt romney's promising, just 12 days to go before election day. listen to what he told the crowd a little while ago in perhaps the aptly named defiance, ohio. >> this is a time when america faces big challenges. we have a big election. and we want a president who will actually bring big changes and i will and he won't. >> the new cnn poll of polls has romney with a one point lead over the president. other polls have romney and obama tied i
. >> john mccain talks mitt romney momentum and blasts the white house on the benghazi attack. >> you can't assume anything about either a cover-up or colossal incompetence. >> also, obama's favorite debate sparring partner and the man who whipped obama into shape after the disastrous first debate. and battleground america. why women hold the key to this election. plus, when politics becomes personal. the always controversial gloria allred. >> even when life begins in...
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just shouting really, rudy giuliani on friday night, very animated, particularly about the events in benghazi, leading to assassination of the ambassador. he believes there is a huge coverup going on and once the investigation is concluded, it will be revealed that the obama administration lied to the american public and even went as far as saying that and covered it up what do you make of what he said and do you believe that the admin stakes are has a case to answer? >> i'm the chairman of the subcommittee on oversight, with darrell issa, myself, other members of the committee, we have been pressing this administration and if we had not pressed them, i don't think this administration would have fessed up to the fact that it was not a video that led to this attack. on june 6th, when our embassy was attacked for the second time you can the president and the admin station rail failed to recognize that terrorist effort. when you luke at what happened on nif, we lost four americans, including our first ambassador since the 1970s. and for weeks, the administration was misleading the american peopl
just shouting really, rudy giuliani on friday night, very animated, particularly about the events in benghazi, leading to assassination of the ambassador. he believes there is a huge coverup going on and once the investigation is concluded, it will be revealed that the obama administration lied to the american public and even went as far as saying that and covered it up what do you make of what he said and do you believe that the admin stakes are has a case to answer? >> i'm the chairman...
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is responsible, if it was coordinated, and if it was related at all to 9/11, and b, to the event in benghazi, libya. >> a lot of your colleagues, democrats and republicans, have said they're reconsidering supporting about $1. 5 billion a year in aid to egypt. are you amox those ready to pull the plug? >> you always have to ask yourself, is the united states and the national security better if we're gone completely or have a sphere of influence there? i do believe it ought to be leverage as we move forward and we have to get some commitments by this government that they're going to do more in sinai, less to provoke israel and make sure our u.s. embassies are protected fully by the egyptian government. it's unconscionable this could happen on their watch. so it needs to be a point of discussion. we need to be careful about starting to pull out of places that we don't understand the changes that are happening and we don't understand the intelligence and military roles t and what this muslim brotherhood is trying to do. we should walk into that decision, not run into it. >> speaking of israel, w
is responsible, if it was coordinated, and if it was related at all to 9/11, and b, to the event in benghazi, libya. >> a lot of your colleagues, democrats and republicans, have said they're reconsidering supporting about $1. 5 billion a year in aid to egypt. are you amox those ready to pull the plug? >> you always have to ask yourself, is the united states and the national security better if we're gone completely or have a sphere of influence there? i do believe it ought to be...
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, why didn't he go after obama on the benghazi cover-up. >> why call the president of the united states a retard? >> because it's a synonym for loser. we were spending ten seconds on this or it's going to be another two years before i come on. >> now you're threatening me. >> i'm angry at the word police. i need an encyclopedia to see which words are appropriate and which aren't. >> no, you don't. >> explain to me why retard is inappropriate. >> what if i said imbecile, creton or moron. any of those words, as you know, has not become in the last decade or so a word that is synonymously offensive to people with disability. and is used in an offensive way about them by people. that is a difference. >> do you call people with mental disabilities retards, because i don't. i think that's a nasty thing to do. >> a lot of people do, to be offensive. yes. >> no, they don't. they absolutely do not. no one would call a down syndrome child a retard. it is synonymous with loser. you know perfectly well -- >> that's complete nonsense. wait a minute. wait a minute. that's complete nonsense. that's th
, why didn't he go after obama on the benghazi cover-up. >> why call the president of the united states a retard? >> because it's a synonym for loser. we were spending ten seconds on this or it's going to be another two years before i come on. >> now you're threatening me. >> i'm angry at the word police. i need an encyclopedia to see which words are appropriate and which aren't. >> no, you don't. >> explain to me why retard is inappropriate. >> what if...
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. >> today benghazi we see e-mails that the administration did know this was a terrorist attack. none of this is very good for the president, is it? >> well look, first of all, you cannot deny that there are people still out of work. you can accept and have to that a strategy that is about investing in innovation is the reason why we are getting the job growth that we are. imagine how it would be if the president got the things that he has asked for. remember the fog of war. there was an intelligence report, on sunday talkshows more information has come out. if you ever would think that this president given the seriousness with which he takes the role of commander in chief would take americans in harm's way you need to think again. >> let's turn to mitt romney, this old stomping ground. did you inherit his binder of women? >> well, let me tell you that we have had success in encouraging talent into this administration. we know what that record really is and what that performance really was. we slipped in job creation from 35th to 47th. we know that the level of debt hit record hi
. >> today benghazi we see e-mails that the administration did know this was a terrorist attack. none of this is very good for the president, is it? >> well look, first of all, you cannot deny that there are people still out of work. you can accept and have to that a strategy that is about investing in innovation is the reason why we are getting the job growth that we are. imagine how it would be if the president got the things that he has asked for. remember the fog of war. there...
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. >> huge pressure for both sides, it is foreign policy, the whole issue of what happened in benghazi with the assassination of the ambassador. it was interesting to me again. a home run to mitt romney that he screwed up. there were valid criticisms of the administration that he could have raised we had the at mission of the hillary clinton and i would have gone on that. mitt romney used this -- why didn't you use act of terror but if you are being honest about this, the wider issue is not that dispute over act of terror. it is really about what happened and who knew what and what the security requirements were and had mitt romney phrased the question better i think it would have been a more difficult moment than it turned out to be. do you accept that there were failings here? >> i think what the president said last night was clear. he feels he takes responsibility for every single person we send over seas in dangerous places as well as service people. i know as someone who is close to him, i know who personally he takes that. his reaction to this tragedy is to bring the people who d
. >> huge pressure for both sides, it is foreign policy, the whole issue of what happened in benghazi with the assassination of the ambassador. it was interesting to me again. a home run to mitt romney that he screwed up. there were valid criticisms of the administration that he could have raised we had the at mission of the hillary clinton and i would have gone on that. mitt romney used this -- why didn't you use act of terror but if you are being honest about this, the wider issue is...
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and there was never a good response about obamacare and about benghazi and a failure to communicate against this war on women. >> let me bring in cecile here, you have had a good run there. so, it was a convincing victory and there is no doubt that women were more attracted to him and what he stood for than they were mitt romney. >> big time. this was a great night for women and women's health. the gender gap was 18 points yesterday. and i think the other thing we saw was rejection of mitt romney's policies and promises to get rid of planned parenthood. but in addition to that, we saw the candidates who should have been elected richard murdock were defeated because of their extreme positions on women. women showed they would not vote for men who would take away their rights and. >> why did scott brown lose? and let's not be a commercial for our interests here tonight. wait, where in the cnn exit polls was what you just described? was it number two, three or four? >> hang on. let's face the facts here, todd akin, they lost because of their outpowerings issues that women thought were offensiv
and there was never a good response about obamacare and about benghazi and a failure to communicate against this war on women. >> let me bring in cecile here, you have had a good run there. so, it was a convincing victory and there is no doubt that women were more attracted to him and what he stood for than they were mitt romney. >> big time. this was a great night for women and women's health. the gender gap was 18 points yesterday. and i think the other thing we saw was rejection...
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it's foreign policy and one of the biggest flash points was foreign policy what happened in benghazi with the ambassador. it was me a home run moment for mitt romney he screwed up. there were valid criticisms he could have raised. we had the admission from the secretary of state, hillary clinton it was her blame and not the president. i would have gone on that. mitt romney used >>> why didn't you use acts of terror when the president had used that. if you're being honest about this, david, the wider issue is not just that little dispute over acts of terror. it's really about what happened and who knew what and what the security requirements were that came through and did the white house ever see them? had mitt romney phrased the question better, it would have been a more difficult moment for the president than it was. do you accept as administration that there were failings here? >> look, i think what the president said last night was very, very clear. he feels -- he takes responsibility for every single person we send overseas in diplomatic missions and dangerous places as well as o
it's foreign policy and one of the biggest flash points was foreign policy what happened in benghazi with the ambassador. it was me a home run moment for mitt romney he screwed up. there were valid criticisms he could have raised. we had the admission from the secretary of state, hillary clinton it was her blame and not the president. i would have gone on that. mitt romney used >>> why didn't you use acts of terror when the president had used that. if you're being honest about this,...